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The MACC has opened 81 investigation papers involving 143 companies and detained 98 individuals over suspected fraud in PERKESO's Daya Kerjaya 2.0 employment incentive programme, with losses estimated at RM9 million.
Vietnamese police have broken up a major transnational fraud operation that defrauded around 500 victims of more than RM39.2 million. Twelve suspects have been arrested, with investigators tracing the operation to Cambodia where the group deployed sophisticated impersonation tactics.
Police in Perak have arrested five individuals suspected of operating a scratch-and-win lottery scam that defrauded two elderly women of more than RM77,000 across Ipoh and Taiping.
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has cast its investigative net across more than 1,600 companies as part of an expanding inquiry into alleged fraud within the Daya Kerjaya employment initiative, signalling the growing scope of what may be one of the country's most widespread graft cases.
Malaysia's anti-corruption authority will scrutinise governance deficiencies in the Daya Kerjaya 2.0 employment incentive scheme following discovery of alleged fraudulent claims worth RM9 million.